The Galactic Patrol
Saving the Universe from Boskone and Bugs
WS-Eventing for Dummies
WS-Eventing is a standard that enables interoperable publish/subscribe systems. The spec itself is...
Author: bwill Date: 02/10/2004
Software Testing on Mars
Here is an interesting summary of the problem encountered by the Spirit probe on Mars. Important...
Author: bwill Date: 02/10/2004
Bruce Gets Back To Work
I’m back at work, after six weeks away – vacation and then paternity leave. Please...
Author: bwill Date: 02/05/2004
WS-Eventing published
I noticed the WS-Eventing proposed standard has been published – this is directly related to...
Author: bwill Date: 01/27/2004
Welcome to the world, Lucy!
On Wednesday, my wife gave birth to a darling baby girl – Lucille Alsdorf Williams. What can I...
Author: bwill Date: 01/12/2004
Welcome, Dom!
A friend of mine, Dominic Hopton, recently joined our ranks here at Microsoft – he’ll be...
Author: bwill Date: 01/06/2004
Is that a rail gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
Here is an interesting site about a guy who builds rail guns in his spare time. (If you don’t...
Author: bwill Date: 12/16/2003
"Ender's Game" should be movie
Scott Hanselman lists out some of his favorite books that he’d like to see made into movies....
Author: bwill Date: 12/12/2003
how to contact me
I published this info when I started my GotDotNet blog; with the move, now is a good time to...
Author: bwill Date: 12/12/2003
should this blog be technical-only?
When my blog was on GotDotNet, I asked if I should limit myself to technical issues, or if I should...
Author: bwill Date: 12/11/2003
new A/V cable format has built-in copy-protection?
I was reading an article recently about a new audio/video cable format that a bunch of companies are...
Author: bwill Date: 12/11/2003
old blog entries at https://blogs.gotdotnet.com/bwill
For anyone who is new to my blog at this location; the content from my old blog should get migrated...
Author: bwill Date: 12/10/2003
If you develop on Windows - use AppVerifier!
I read a post recently from a person who was disappointed that they hadn’t heard of the...
Author: bwill Date: 12/10/2003
Honk if you can read this!
First post in the new blog – lets see if the .Text plugin for NewsGator works…
Author: bwill Date: 12/10/2003
Blog moving...
As with so many other GotDotNet bloggers, I am moving over to WEBLOGS.ASP.NET. Yeah, I know...
Author: bwill Date: 12/09/2003
think you're good at puzzles? try this one.
I ran across this puzzle a little while ago. I’m still working on it – now you can...
Author: bwill Date: 12/09/2003
Privacy? What's that?
Take a look at this very interesting map of the Carnegie Mellon college campus. It shows, in...
Author: bwill Date: 12/09/2003
ever wanted to make your software more usable?
If you are a software developer, I’m sure you’ve considered the usability of your...
Author: bwill Date: 12/09/2003
wanna write an online/offline app like Outlook 2003?
If you are interested in writing an app that transparently caches and goes offline gracefully, like...
Author: bwill Date: 12/09/2003
"connected media center" devices - the new stereo component receiver?
I was reading a Gizmodo article talking about the proliferation of “connected media...
Author: bwill Date: 12/07/2003
The real story behind "Design Patterns"...
Check this out – it appears that the book “Design Patterns” was actually...
Author: bwill Date: 12/05/2003
FreeNet looking for donations
I notice the FreeNet site is soliciting donations. FreeNet is a distributed, anonymous file...
Author: bwill Date: 12/02/2003
Breaking [Serializable]
Doug is asking folks if we should change how [Serializable] works under partial-trust, to be more...
Author: bwill Date: 11/25/2003
Lego robot solves rubik's cube
Very cool – a design journal for a robot made of Legos that can solve a Rubik’s...
Author: bwill Date: 11/12/2003
Children growing up in a TiVo world
With my own little Lucy due in less than two months, I find articles like this one particularly...
Author: bwill Date: 11/11/2003
The /GS switch and 'secure by default'
Interesting article about the /GS switch for compiling more secure C++ programs, as well as...
Author: bwill Date: 11/11/2003
The Blue Lady watches out for homeless Miami street children
Amazing stories of God and Satan, Angels and Demons, and the wars between them – as...
Author: bwill Date: 11/11/2003
separated at birth?
Cameron Purdy spills deep family secrets about his brother Doug. I think its funny as heck,...
Author: bwill Date: 11/11/2003
cbrumme on application compatibility (appcompat as we fondly know it)
Chris has another excellent opus, this time on managed appcompat.
Author: bwill Date: 11/10/2003
VB Lover? Read On...
Paul introduces a most excellent idea for a short video or ad targeting the proud VB...
Author: bwill Date: 11/05/2003
wanna beta-test some games? get some free software? read on...
I just noticed a post by Steve describing Microsoft Usability Lab’s need for more...
Author: bwill Date: 11/04/2003
PDC - Company Meeting - who needs it!?
I’m back from my week-long vacation in West Virginia. I gotta tell you, the Northeast...
Author: bwill Date: 11/03/2003
wierd connections
I just caught up on my hotmail account - I've been slacking, and haven't looked at it for three...
Author: bwill Date: 10/20/2003
Time, once again, for the annual Ig-Nobel prizes!
If you, like me, enjoy science, and also enjoy the lighter side of life – then you probably...
Author: bwill Date: 10/09/2003
bluetooth ATMs?
I was reading this: https://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60677,00.html And in...
Author: bwill Date: 10/09/2003
When it comes to C programming - start young!
Patrick Steele posts this outstanding reference to the C programming language in the Foxtrot...
Author: bwill Date: 10/09/2003
MONO Bloggers
There are a number of MONO project bloggers whose aggregated entries can be found at this site; very...
Author: bwill Date: 10/09/2003
Your pain is my humor
I found this most excellent site which describes a number of (presumably) real-world stories,...
Author: bwill Date: 10/09/2003
blog the testing cost post
I send myself e-mail occasionally, so I can remember items that I want to blog about later. (I...
Author: bwill Date: 10/09/2003
Chis Brumme on exceptions
I think Chris took exception when someone wrote that Suzanne Cook might be his equal in the...
Author: bwill Date: 10/02/2003
categories coming
I’m going to go ahead and tag some of my posts with categories; I’m not sure if this...
Author: bwill Date: 09/30/2003
Macs suck - they really, really suck
Ok, prompted by this Russell Beattie post, I have to say that Macintosh computers really bite the...
Author: bwill Date: 09/30/2003
Be verwy verwy quiet - we're hunting bugs!
Eric Lippert has a great post describing some of his adventures with security issues in...
Author: bwill Date: 09/26/2003
oh - my - god - buy me this computer!
Calling this machine a 3.8 GHz Pentium computer does it a massive disservice. It completely...
Author: bwill Date: 09/26/2003